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Chutorian-Semler Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$922k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$3.0MArts & Culture$2.4MEducation$2.2MHuman Services$86kFood & Nutrition$75kPhilanthropy$68kYouth Development$55kRecreation & Sports$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
  • $250k+2 grants · $647k
$200,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$93
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$350,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION$297,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$200,000
STETSON UNIVERSITY$60,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$10,000
THE YOUNG MENS AND YOUNG WOMENS HEBREW ASSOCIATION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 28%RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 28%RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES: $500 → 28%RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $500 → 28%RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES: $500 → 28%RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES: $250 → 28%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $38k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $12k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILD: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
DC
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 28 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
44

Total granted

$4.7M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+15%

Still filing today

82%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +176%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $310k · revenue +35%
  • AT
    ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN
    5× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue +4%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY (SCHOOL OF DRAMA)
    one grant, 2017 · $80k
  • R2
    RISE 2 GREATNESS FOUNDATION (FKA PG FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2023 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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7
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverdale Neighborhood House Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Riverdale Nursery School & Family Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr11%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr11%4%35–55yr11%82%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
14%
13,240/97,873

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC — $3,000,000 · HealthNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER …+2 more — $6,000 · HealthTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $2,225,560 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION+9 more — $62,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient — $795,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDARTMOUTH COLLEGE — $350,000 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGEYALE UNIVERSITY — $350,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT — $300,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTYALE UNIVERSITY (SCHOOL OF DRAMA) — $80,000 · Other+40 more — $345,100 · Other+40 moreTrustees of Dartmouth College — $500,000 · EducationTrustees of Da…ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $310,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTUR…STETSON UNIVERSITY INC — $300,000 · EducationSTETSON UNIVER…+6 more — $48,500 · EducationASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $74,500 · Human ServicesRIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES INC — $7,750 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $3,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesCITY HARVEST INC — $65,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $10,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $48,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Health$3,006,000Arts & Culture$2,287,560Other$2,220,100Education$1,158,500Human Services$86,750Food & Nutrition$75,000Philanthropy$69,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC — $3,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $2,225,560 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $310,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $74,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE 2 GREATNESS FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC — $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROSCHOLARS ATHLETICS — $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNew York University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLISMORE ROAD INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES INC — $7,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARTS CONNECTION — $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLEA THEATER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ideal School of Manhattan — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KRZYZOWA KREISAU FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetJACK HADLEYS BLACK HISTORY MEMORBILLIA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC BAYKEEPER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE HERON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBOOT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Gund Geoffrey FdnThe Jockey Hollow Fou…Booth Ferris Foundati…Select Equity Group F…The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Communal FundNY17.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gund Geoffrey Fdn · The Jockey Hollow Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Chutorian-Semler Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Chutorian-Semler Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chutorian-Semler Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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